Daniel was born in New Zealand in 1973 before moving to Australia in 1980. Once finishing school, Daniel worked predominantly within the hospitality and security industries for many years, before changing direction towards his creative side in both designing toys and writing, all while raising his daughter.

It was through his daughter’s love for gymnastics that Daniel started volunteering and coaching for her club and spending more time around younger children, which spurred on his already fertile imagination and saw him pull out old notebooks and put pen to paper to clear his head of long-lingering story ideas.